It has been often stated
that no religious movement in
history produced as many vital and great personalities in its first
hundred
years of growth as the Metaphysical Movement of America. Brown Landone
was one of them, and many thousands have been helped by his
instruction,
his healing ministry and his radiant writings. His name will be
remembered
along with Mary Baker Eddy, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Annie Rix Militz, Nona
L Brooks, Malinda Cramer, Prentice Mulford, Charles and Myrtle Filmore,
Ralph Waldo Trine, Thomas Troward, Christian D. Larson, Emmet Fox, and
Ernest Holmes.

Brown Landone was born before the days of the "Gold Rush," on
March 6, 1847, and lived to see all of our Modern Day inventions come
into
fruition - including the atomic bomb! He was born on the High
Seas,
on an American ship, of British parents. He passed peaceably and in
apparent
good health, in Winter Park, Florida on October 10, 1945, age 98 years.

Brown Landone had been a medical
doctor
before he came to the New Thought work, and he was a prominent writer
and lecturer for many years. He was born into a wealthy
family in Philadelphia, and was always known
as a sickly child who had to be nursed through one illness after
another.

When he was about thirteen, something happened that started the boy
thinking in a new way. Prior to this time he had had nurses around the
clock. They got him up, dressed him, and led him to a chair. He sat
there while he ate a simple meal and as soon as it was finished a nurse
got him back into bed for a nap. Young Brown lived the usual routine of
an invalid.

One day, when he and a nurse were alone in the house, the nurse
discovered that a bottle of the boy's special medicine was empty. She
asked him if he would be all right while she went to the drugstore some
distance away. He assured her that he would.

When the nurse had been gone less than five minutes, Brown began to
smell smoke and knew that something was on fire. He remembered that his
father had instructed the servants concerning one important thing they
must do if ever the house caught fire. He had told them that a metal
chest in the attic contained every valuable paper he possessed. They
were to get that metal chest out.

The boy, with the smell of smoke in his nostrils, could think of
nothing but the metal chest. He was not aware of the events that
followed his concerned thoughts until he found himself standing on the
sidewalk beside the precious box. He suddenly realized that he, the
supposed invalid, had gone to the attic, two floors above his bedroom
and five floors from the street. There he had picked up the heavy chest
and carried it to the sidewalk. When he came to the realization of what
his subconscious mind had caused him to do, he fainted dead away.

The fire was extinguished without any great harm and the nurse prepared
to put the young patient back in bed. He refused to go. "I want to sit
in this chair and think," he told her.

In later years, he told that at the time
of the fire he had awakened to the fact that he had performed an
extraordinary feat without any conscious awareness of it. If he could
do that subconsciously when he was ill, he reasoned, he certainly could
do it consciously. He decided that he was not going back to bed except
to sleep at night, and he never did. Brown Landone, the mature man, was
perfectly well and happy until the
end of his days.
Dr. Landone compressed into his century of living an unbelievable
career
of discoveries, services and teachings. He was educated by private
tutors
in America, England and France. He studied for the ministry at
Episcopal
High Church in England and received a Doctor of Divinity degree.
However
his interests changed. He studied medicine and received a degree in
medicine.
In his medical practice he learned that suggestion did more for his
patients
than did medicine. He became known as one of the first neurologists,
later
called psychiatrists, through his work in localization of brain centers.

Dr. Landone had a most fruitful lifetime. In 1895 he organized the
first
boys' activities in the Y.M.C.A. He was an international
historian,
educator, author and writer of many books and courses. His work in art
was so outstanding that leaders in five capitals in Europe made him
President
of the International Institute of Science of The Arts in Paris. He was
scientifically trained but always spiritually minded. He was President
of the International Committee on New Education in 1905, which included
100 of the greatest educators in 17 countries. In 1911 he and others
tried
to form a United States of Europe. He was Editor-in-Chief of a "History
of Civilization" with associate editors Lorado Taft, William Hubbard,
Edmund James and other noted educators.

In 1913 he lectured at Oxford University in England. He lectured at the
Sorbonne in Paris in 1913-1914. He was sent to Germany to make an
economic
survey of the then German Empire which he completed early in 1914. In a
public lecture at the Sorbonne he told the French people that Germany
would
wage war in six months and was ridiculed. He repeated this statement in
a lecture at Queen's Hall in London in May of 1914 and was hissed. The
First World War started in July, 1914.

During World War One the President of France appointed Dr. Landone
special
ambassador for France to the United States. Around the same period of
time
he was also consultant to sales managers of Ford Motor Company, U. S.
Steel,
and Metropolitan Life, and after a study of economic socialism in
Germany,
exposed method by which the German Imperial Government made state
socialism
appear profitable. He also discovered hidden items in reports of the
Japanese
government, which showed they were then using school funds to build
submarines
secretly.

Dr. Landone had three
sons, all of whom were war casualties.
This experience turned his interest to the promotion of Peace. He was
instrumental
in forming a European Peace Foundation. This quotation tells much about
the philosophy of Dr. Brown Landone. "There will never be continuing
peace on earth until a transformation is wrought by LOVE in the heart
of
man."

He was known affectionately as "BL" by his friends and co-workers.
For many years he lectured regularly in New York City, maintaining his
office and publishing quarters at Newton, New Jersey. He later
relocated
to Winter Park, Florida, where he maintained a large office staff and
issued
his publications from his extensive homethere. His interests were wide spread. In 1930 when
silent movies were changing to talking movies he was called to
Hollywood
to help fit the voice to microphone and the microphone to the voice. He
carried on many experiments with an Asian shrub, Ramie, a fiber used in
textiles. His demonstrations held in his Winter Park home, were
attended
by prominent people from all over the United States. The Landone
Foundation,
founded by Dr. Landone, conducted an experimental farm in Zellwood and
successfully grew Ramie in large quantities.

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He had a unique quality of
always being able to synthesize
Truth with the latest developments in the scientific fields. He was
almost
as well known for his scientific research work as for his metaphysical
career. Through the years he had been a close friend of many of the
great
artists, writers, and international celebrities and spoke before almost
all the Civic Groups and clubs of America, such as Rotary, Kiwanas, and
scientific bodies. His capacity for work was endless and he devoted his
entire time to it, keeping a staff of secretaries both night and day to
keep up with his rapid expression of new ideas. Through the years his
one
major theme of teaching has been to be ever conscious of new ideas, and
to express them in love for the good of all.

Dr. Landone was a prolific writer, authoring more than 100 books,
covering
such subjects as Leadership, Civilization, Peace and Religion. Among
them
are such titles as "Your Path Direct to Your Goal," "The
Methods of Truth Which I Use," "Transforming Your Life in 24
Hours," "The A B C of Truth," and "Spiritual
Revelations of the Bible."

In June 1940 he started a column in the Winter Park Herald called "The
Voice of the World," later changed to "This Changing World."
The last printed article of this column appeared on October 19, nine
days
after his death.

Brown Landone was one of the truly great and interesting characters and
early leaders of the New Thought Movement. An active worker in the New
Thought Alliance since its beginning, almost every international
Congress
program bears his name, and always he attracted huge audiences to his
Congress
lectures. Even though he was in his nineties Dr. Landone came to the
INTA
Congress in Louisville in 1944, and gave another of his vital messages
imploring his listeners to make Divine Love the keynote of the Truth
message
for the post-war era. He served several terms on the Executive Board of
the INTA, and also as District President for the States of New York,
New
Jersey and Florida.

Dr. Landone was an outstanding Truth teacher for over sixty years. His
writings have helped millions, and he undoubtedly had the largest
personal
following of any teacher that has ever been a part of The New Thought
Movement.
Thousands of students each week were in touch with him through personal
correspondence, and his ability to turn out tremendous quantities of
writings,
courses, personal letters, etc., always amazed the other teachers in
the
field.

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